Jimmy Kimmel Bought a Bunch of Trump Merch Only to Find Out Most of It Came From China (Video)

Jimmy Kimmel spent part of his monologue on Wednesday night talking about Democrat Conor Lamb’s victory over Republican Rick Saccone in the special congressional election in Pennsylvania, even though Donald Trump made a big show of endorsing Saccone — going so far as to give that now-infamous speech at Saccone’s rally on Saturday.

Kimmel used that to segue into a takedown of the Trump family’s online store, which sells all sorts of gaudy and overpriced merchandise with the Trump name plastered all over all of it.

“This loss came only a week after the president made a very blatant attempt to woo voters in Pennsylvania by calling for heavy tariffs on foreign aluminum and steel. Trump, as you know, wants to focus on America, and American-made products and goods. So I wondered, because I agree with that, how things were going on his family website, trumpstore.com,” Kimmel said.

“Have you been there? Because I’m sure Eric and Donald Jr. take this American thing very seriously. These guys are red, white and blue to the core. They’re like a couple of flags wearing hair gel, these two. And in case you wonder what they do all day — they run trumpstore.com. This is the Trump family’s official online store that features, quote, ‘the very latest in Trump-branded merchandise, apparel, headwear, gifts, and much more.'”

You can probably guess where this is going, but Kimmel ended up buying a pile of Trump merch to see how American it really was.

“And you know my wife was yelling at me the whole time I was on the site saying, ‘Don’t order anything from that!’ I ordered a bunch of stuff from it, and this is what happened,” Kimmel said.

Then Kimmel presented the box of stuff he got from the Trump Store, and it included a gold-sealed note from Donald Jr. and Eric thanking him for being one of their first customers. From there, Kimmel went through the items one by one and said where each of them was made. Surprise! None of it said it was made in America.

“First of all I ordered a white Trump golf hat, which I don’t know if you can see but it’s made in China,” Kimmel said as a camera zoomed in on the label. “I got a coffee mug that says Trump on it, which is made in Thailand. I got a golf club cover which is made in China but decorated in the USA. And that’s something. I got a Trump signature duffel bag which is made in China. I got a Trump signature shoe bag which is made in China. I got a blanket which is made — guess where this was made. Yeah. China.”

“I got something for my son, a toddler bib just like the one the president wears when he eats cheeseburgers in bed. Made in — you want to guess where this one was made?” Kimmel asked the audience, which yelled “China” in unison. “No, Peru.”

Then Kimmel noted a pair of items, a gold bar coin bank and a pet bandana, which didn’t have any indication on them where they were made. Kimmel said he looked up the rules for listing country of origin on imported products and read a statute that said that “failure to properly report product origin can result in substantial penalties. Companies can face up to $500,000 in fines per violation or double the loss or gain from the violation related to these violations.”

“This could be very expensive, not to mention this has got to be embarrassing. Are they capable of shame? I mean, Trump’s whole platform is about supporting American companies. His company isn’t even supporting America. you know what I’m going to do? I’m sure Eric and Don Jr. didn’t know about this. I’m sure this was a simple oversight. I’ll just file an official complaint, and let them sort it all out,” Kimmel said before comparing the younger Trumps to Saddam Hussein’s sons for good measure.

“The important thing is that the president’s sons Uday and Qusay are making a lot of money.”

You can view this portion of Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue from Wednesday night in the video embedded at the top of this post.

We’re in for at least (probably) two more years of Donald Trump as President of the United States. That means lots of bad things and one particularly great thing: We’re in for a lot more Alec Baldwin impersonations of Trump on “Saturday Night Live.” From the often ridiculous phrases to the weird outbursts, “SNL” has captured all of it. In fact, the sketches often seem to struggle to surpass reality in terms of absurdity. But they get there. Here’s a list of every Baldwin-as-Trump “SNL” sketch, ranked from least to most hilarious, with links to the sketches.

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29. Trump’s Classroom Cold Open (Dec. 3, 2016)

Trump retweets ridiculous people, like a 16-year-old and a white supremacist. This one’s sadder than it is funny, though, because most of it doesn’t even require jokes. You can watch that sketch here.

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28. Donald Trump Prepares Cold Open (Nov. 19, 2016)

Fresh off winning the election, Trump’s completely unprepared. We already know that Mike Pence will do everything, but good effort, “SNL.” You can watch that sketch here.

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27. Trump’s Christmas Cold Open (Dec. 17, 2016)

Vladimir Putin and Rex Tillerson drop by Trump Tower for Christmas. This one definitely brings to mind the phrase, “No puppet, no puppet.” It's also, perhaps, the most outright terrifying of all of these. You can watch that sketch here.

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26. The O'Reilly Factor with Donald Trump (April 8, 2017)

Alec Baldwin played both a scandalized Bill O'Reilly and Trump, who appeared on O'Reilly's show to defend him. A clueless Trump is a nice addition to this one but he's ultimately just an addition to another gag. You can watch the sketch here.

The first debate really found Baldwin hitting the Trump stride. It’s mostly just him shouting “Gina” in a very insistent tone (his weird pronunciation of "China"). “Yuge Gina” gets a lot of mileage though. You can watch that sketch here.

"SNL" made good on Trump's all-caps "SEE YOU IN COURT" tweet by taking the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to "The People's Court." But Judge Milian hassling Trump about his travel ban was a bit too short to really take off. Watch the sketch here.

After a tough White House Press Briefing, Melissa McCarthy's Press Secretary Sean Spicer rode his motorized podium to New York to confront Trump on lies. The pair wound up making out. Watch the sketch here.

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20. Donald Trump Phoenix Rally Cold Open (Aug. 24, 2016)

Trump gives a goodbye to Steve Bannon and pledges to build the Wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and make the American tax payer pay for it. Watch the sketch here.

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19. Trump's People (April 8, 2017)

Trump checks in with rural white Americans after ordering an airstrike on Syria. Desperate to keep everyone happy, he promises everyone will have coal jobs for the rest of their lives and that he'll slash minimum wage. The final joke about "finger chili" is a standout moment. Watch the sketch right here.

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18. Press Conference With Baltic Leaders (April 7, 2018)

Trump meets with leaders from the Baltics and gets so bored that he finally tells America what he really thinks about the presidency. Watch the sketch here.

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17. Fox & Friends Cold Open (Feb. 5)

Trump called in to his favorite show, Fox News' "Fox & Friends," for a quick pick-me-up after his State of the Union address. Trump isn't the complete focus of this one, but when he shows up to tout the address, he gets in some good jokes -- like how "people" are saying the SOTU was better than Martin Luther King's "I Dream of Jeannie" speech. Watch the sketch here.

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16. VP Debate Cold Open (Oct. 8, 2o16)

Trump nabs the spotlight from the vice presidential debate and realizes he needs to be a lot more careful about talking about sexually assaulting people while wearing hot mics. Describing himself as a gross groping hurricane is hilariously cringe-worthy. You can watch that sketch here.

Trump spoke to American troops to rally them in a battle against super-powerful space aliens. Unfortunately, Trump's old standbys like "we don't win anymore" and "we're going to bring coal back" were not all that helpful. Most of the rhetoric is stuff we've heard before, but Leslie Jones' and Sasheer Zamata's moments near the end elevate the sketch. Watch the sketch here.

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14. White House Tree Trimming Cold Open (Dec. 16, 2017)

Joined by his family, Mike Pence, Jeff Sessions, Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kellyanne Conway, Trump decks his Christmas tree by remembering the losers in his first year as president. Watch the video here.

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13. Trump call with Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz (Sept. 30, 2016)

Trump fields a call with Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and reminds her that if the U.S. territory should have invested in FEMA Prime if it wanted fast hurricane relief. Watch the sketch here.

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12. Trump Administration sings "Hallelujah" (May 20, 2017)

The final cold open of the season references Kate McKinnon's cold open as Hillary Clinton, making a perfect joke about Donald Trump's week of news scandals. Scarlett Johansson even returned for a quick guest appearance to reprise her role as Ivanka Trump. Watch it here.

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11. Hillary Clinton/Donald Trump Cold Open (Nov. 5, 2016)

CNN doesn’t care that Trump literally kisses the FBI, Putin and the KKK, instead pestering Hillary about emails. Alec and Kate heartwarming run through Times Square is the real sweet spot of the sketch. You can watch that sketch here.

After a week of reports about infighting between Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner, "SNL" pits the two advisers against each other in to see who will be eliminated. Spoiler alert: It's Bannon. Watch the sketch here.

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9. Donald Trump Trucker Rally Did Cold Open (Oct. 14, 2017)

Baldwin's Trump continues to make Vice President Mike Pence (Beck Bennett) walk out of things in protest, including a basketball game, a Starbucks and a gay wedding. Watch the sketch here.

Of all the debates, the second was the funniest. Trump lurking in the background and slipping past Hillary like he’s the shark in a “Jaws” movie completely captures the awkwardness of the real event. You can watch that sketch here.

Riffing on the finale of "The Sopranos," Trump meets with members of his inner circle at a restaurant, including Ben Stiller's Michael Cohen, only to find Robert De Niro's Robert Mueller watching him. Check out the sketch here.

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5. Donald Trump Press Conference Cold Open (Jan. 14, 2017)

It might be the lowest-brow of the sketches, but Trump accidentally talking about urine throughout his press conference is bested only by the line, “I’m not talking about the pee-pee, because it didn’t happen and it wasn’t as cool as it sounds.” You can watch that sketch here.

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4. Donald Trump and Steve Bannon call world leaders (Feb. 4, 2017)

"SNL" channels two weeks of executive actions and other Trump news items to turn out a ton of jokes that channel absurdity while still finding new ways to be funny. Watch the sketch here.

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3. Donald Trump interview with Lester Holt (May 13, 2017)

After firing former FBI Director James Comey, Trump realized he could say just about anything with no consequences. He tried it out in an interview with Lester Holt. Watch the sketch here.

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2. Presidential Address (March 4, 2018)

Trump addresses the gun control debate and talks about how America is in the top 5 countries in the world -- but lags behind Wakanda, the fictional African nation from the movie "Black Panther." Watch the sketch here.

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1. Michael Cohen Wiretap Cold Open (May 5, 2018)

Trump's wiretapped attorney, Michael Cohen, accidentally calls and incriminates Trump -- along with everybody else -- in a star-studded cold-open that ends with a surprise appearance by the real life Stormy Daniels. Watch it here.

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Get ready for two more years of this

We’re in for at least (probably) two more years of Donald Trump as President of the United States. That means lots of bad things and one particularly great thing: We’re in for a lot more Alec Baldwin impersonations of Trump on “Saturday Night Live.” From the often ridiculous phrases to the weird outbursts, “SNL” has captured all of it. In fact, the sketches often seem to struggle to surpass reality in terms of absurdity. But they get there. Here’s a list of every Baldwin-as-Trump “SNL” sketch, ranked from least to most hilarious, with links to the sketches.